Some Comments on Popular-Science Books

Reviews of popular science books.

Do you read popular neuroscience? Do you think Oliver Sacks is spot on and use his books to engage students or do you reckon his patient reports are more like novels or science fiction? Are you taken by Antonio Damasio’s powerful arguments or do you think he did not get his philosophy exactly right? Do you enjoy the writings of William Calvin, Susan Greenfield, Vilayanur Ramachandran or do you ...

on some bayesian statistical models in actuarial science with emphasis on claim count

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Some Vital Books in Science: 1848-1947.

1948 under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailIng at the special rate postage provided for in the Act of February 28, 1925, embodied in paragraph 4, Sec. 538, P. L. and R., authorized January 13, 1948. Articles offered for publication should be sent to the Editor. The AAAS assumes no responsibility for the opinions expressed by contributors. Membership correspondence for the AAAS shou...

Between fact and fiction: demarcating science from non-science in popular physics books

This paper looks at the ways in which popular science books, through their explicit insertion of science into the public domain, act to reinforce a distinct demarcation between scientists and their publics. It is argued that these books acquire a distributed media presence by acting as nodal points in an intertextual web. The intertextuality of popular science books causes images of science whi...

"popular" Science.